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Bunty Avieson spent a year in 2008-2009 in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, jointly funded by the United Nations and the Bhutan Observer newspaper group, to teach journalists and editors, as well as to advise media stakeholders, as part of the country’s move to democracy. This provided the opportunity to undertake fieldwork for her PhD, which she completed in 2013, receiving the Vice Chancellor’s Commendation from Macquarie University. During the year-long posting in Bhutan she acted as a consultant to Reporters Without Borders, Asia-Pacific desk. Her current research includes Wikipedia as a site for knowledge construction and she is a member of both the international Wikimedia Affiliations Committee and is Vice President of Wikimedia Australia.
Avieson’s Master of Philosophy (Macquarie, 2008), titled The Poetics of Paranoia, investigated the construction of self with reference to the theories of Jacques Derrida and 1st century Indian philosopher Nagarjuna.
Media and Communications, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)
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